Letters from the lost : a memoir of discovery

Letters from the lost a memoir of discovery

On 15 March 1939, Helen Waldstein’s father snatched his stamped exit visa from a distracted clerk to escape from Prague with his wife and child. As the Nazis closed in on a war-torn Czechoslovakia, only letters from their extended family could reach Canada through the barriers of conflict. The Walds...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Waldstein Wilkes, Helen, 1936- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edmonton, Alberta : Athabasca University Press 2010
2010.
Colección:Our lives--diary, memoir, and letters.
Materias:
Waldstein Wilkes, Helen, > 1936-
Waldstein Wilkes, Helen, > 1936- > Family.
Jews > Czech Republic > Prague > Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Czech Republic > Personal narratives.
Jews > Czech Republic > Prague > Correspondence.
Jews > Canada > Biography.
immigration
Holocaust
Judaism
World War II
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009435014006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Family Tree
  • Opening the Box
  • Leaving Home
  • Letters to Antwerp
  • Starting Over
  • Letters to Canada
  • Searching In Europe: 1997-1998
  • My Aunts and Uncles
  • My Grandparents
  • War Breaks Out
  • The Family Copes
  • The Letters Stop
  • Imagining
  • After the War
  • Finding Home
  • Searching for Family Again
  • Searching for Family One Last Time
  • Epilogue.

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